Word: hohenzollern
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...least chance existed of a Hohenzollern restoration up North, argued Bavarian editors, then certainly the Free State of Bavaria must consider whether to restore as King her popular Rupprecht, discarded when Crown Prince in 1918. Excitedly at Karlsruhe met three South German champions of states' rights: Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria; Premier Dr. Eugen Bolz of Wurttemberg, Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result...
...restoration of the Kingdom of Bavaria with former Crown Prince Rupprecht on the Throne. In Berlin last week was Viscount Rothermere, "Hearst of England." Flatly he asserted, "Germans have learned from their economic distress that monarchy is good for business." He prophesied the "rescue of the Reich" with a Hohenzollern on the Throne. Promptly at the von Hindenburg mansion a spokesman scouted these rumors, declared: "You cannot put it too strongly that the President will not resign...
...speakers' dais spent a frantic quarter of an hour ducking missiles and wringing their hands. Safe in their odds of 3 to 1, the Fascists soon drove the last Communist from the Chamber, spent the next half-hour triumphantly roaring old war songs. Prince August Wilhelm von Hohenzollern, now a Fascist Deputy, placidly watched the riot, prudently threw no inkwells...
Among the Fascist Deputies elected was Prince August Wilhelm, fourth son of Wilhelm II and "First Hohenzollern in a Republican Parliament." The People's Party, famed when it was led by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, collapsed like a pricked balloon. The Communists barely held their own. Triumphant Adolf Hitler, who has stumped the Fatherland by air at a man-killing pace, rolled up for his Fascist Party in Prussia the imposing plurality...
...Particularly handsome on Rumania's new "golden" coins is the face of H. M. King Carol II, last reigning Hohenzollern...